3rd Grade Science

Life Science

Cell Structure & Function

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Identify the part that is missing from a specific plant or animal.

Parts Is Parts - A Webquest in which students learn about plant parts and create a game or activity to teach others about plant parts.

The Great Plant Escape -

Meet the Plant Parts - Match the plant part drawings with the names.

Parts of a Flower - From BBC- Take the flower apart and identify the parts.

Plant Parts - A Quia activity - match the plant parts with the correct definition.

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Identify the part that belongs to a specific plant or animal.

 
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Identify the function of specific plant and animal parts.

Plant Parts - good information page with link to a Plant Parts game.

Interactions Between Living Things & Their Environments

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Distinguish between living and non-living things in an illustration.

Living or Non-living Quiz - Determine if each picture shows a living or non-living thing.

Classifying Living or Non-Living - a printable worksheet for determining if an object is living or non-living.

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Select the plants and animals found in a specific environment.

Plant Adaptations - describes adaptations plants have made to live in various biomes. Link to a Plant Match game.
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Identify the sense used to collect specific information.

 
3.2.spi.4 Identify the environment that has been impacted by pollutants.  

 

Food Production and Energy for Life

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identify the basic needs of plants and animals.

 
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Recognize that animals obtain their food by eating plants or other animals.

Food Chains - BBC lesson, activity, and quiz.
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Recognize that plants use sunlight, water and air for photosynthesis.

Making Food - a page from theMissouri Botanical Garden site that describes how plants make food-includes an animation.

Heredity & Reproduction

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Choose the diagram that depicts a parent with its offspring.

 
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Select the illustration that shows an adult organism.

 
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Select the illustration that shows how an organism changes as it matures.

 

Diversity and Adaptation Among Living Things

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Identify groups of similar organisms (i.e., plants and animals).

 
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Identify an organism that belongs in a specific environment.

Biology of Plants -
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Identify the characteristics that enable a specific plant and/or animal to survive in its environment.

Adaptation & Competition - BBC review site - text and a few drawings cover how animals and plants adapt to their changing environment , extinction, and how humans affect environmental change.

 

Biological Change

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Identify an example, other than a dinosaur, of an extinct organism.

Adaptation & Competition - BBC review site - text and a few drawings cover how animals and plants adapt to their changing environment , extinction, and how humans affect environmental change.
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Identify evidence used to determine that an organism previously existed.

 
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Match the organism to the evidence for its former existence.

 

 

Earth & Space Science

Earth and Its Place in the Universe

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Identify objects found in the day or nighttime sky.

 
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identify the approximate time of day from a picture of the sun’s position in the sky.

 
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Choose the appropriate tool for observing a specific distant object.

 
3.7.spi.4 Identify the four basic phases of the moon. Moon Phases - Information page about the moon phases - you can see what the moon is like daily.
3.7.spi.5 Identify the components of the solar system (e.g. planets, moons). Solar System Desk - from iknowthat.com - information on each planet and an activity that explores the Milky Way. Ads

Atmospheric Cycles

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Select appropriate clothing for a given weather condition.

 
3.8.spi.2 Identify the season when given a description of weather, plants, and animals.  
3.8.spi.3 Match temperature, precipitation, wind speed and direction, and cloud conditions with different weather conditions. Weather Desk - from IKnowThat.com. Ads
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Identify the appropriate tools to measure temperature and precipitation.

 
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Match the cloud type to a specific kind of weather.

 

Earth Features

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Identify the labelled part of a map or illustration as a continent, ocean, lake, river, mountain, or island.

 
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Select the illustration that identifies a specific geological feature.

 
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Identify a geological feature given specific information.

 

Earth Resources

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Identify an object as natural or man-made.

 
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Recognize the properties used to identify specific Earth materials.

 
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Identify methods for conserving natural resources.

 

 

Physical Science

Forces and Motion

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Identify that an unbalanced force is needed to change the direction of an object.

 
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Select an object that would be attracted by a magnet.

 
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Identify how weights affect a balance scale.

 
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Select how surface characteristics affect the movement of an object.

 

Structure and Properties of Matter

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Select an object according to a particular property.

 
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Order objects according to a specific property (e.g., longest to shortest, heaviest to lightest).

 
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Identify appropriate tools for determining the weight or length of materials.

 
3.12.spi.4 Identify an object when given its properties.  

Interactions of Matter

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Identify the effects of mixing two types of materials (e.g., salt and pepper).

 
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Choose features associated with physical changes.

 
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Identify methods for separating mixtures.

 

Energy

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Identify the source of the Earth’s heat and light energy.

 
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Identify how sounds are produced.

 
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Identify the illustration that demonstrates the effects of the sun on various materials.